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    Has my electrician done a bad job?

    To update you all, I've given the electrician a grilling on site today, informed by your tips. On why he hasn't put in a switch fuse rather than an isolator, he said a switch fuse is not necessary because the isolator is already connected to a fuse in the meter box on the other side of the rear...
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    Has my electrician done a bad job?

    It's out of the early 70s, but point taken telectrix ;-)
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    Has my electrician done a bad job?

    Thank westward10, davesparks, Vortigern. The electrician is due back this week to finalise things and test. I haven't got a certificate for the work yet.
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    Has my electrician done a bad job?

    Thanks everyone for the fantastic ideas and insights. Really helpful. Sounds like an upgrade of some sort is definitely required. As requested, here are pics of the black cable entering into the CU, and of the rather grotty external meter box. Could all the things on the kitchen wall be...
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    Has my electrician done a bad job?

    hi davesparks What you see in the pic is on the other side of my rear well from the meter, which is in an external box facing the garden. So yes, it is very near the meter. (Don't have a pic at the mo, sorry.) The length of cable from the isolator to the new consumer unit is definitely more...
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    Has my electrician done a bad job?

    hi all, Please help me work out whether my electrician has done a decent job or not. We're doing a home renovation and he has installed a mains isolator in the kitchen next to the main fuse, because we have put a new consumer unit in the utility area on the other side of the room. The...

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